All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 2, Chapter 9. The all-controlling nature of totalitarianism is summed up here in this part of Emmanuel Goldstein’s manifesto. Winston and Julia only become aware of the full extent of the Party’s psychological control of people when they read the manifesto.

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